August 2019
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Jeffrey Epstein News Links 14 August 2019
14 August 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back US media continues to downplay suspicions about Jeffrey Epstein’s death https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/08/14/us-media-continues-to-downplay-suspicions-about-jeffrey-epsteins-death/ Epstein’s “Madam” Found: Ghislaine Maxwell Living With Tech CEO in Mansion http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/g4_bIL8e8G0/epsteins-madam-found-ghislaine-maxwell-living-with-tech-ceo-in-mansion.html Continue reading
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Violent Protests In Hong Kong Reach Their Last Stage
The protests, as originally started in June, were against a law that would have allowed criminal extraditions to Taiwan, Macao and mainland China. The law was retracted and the large protests have since died down. What is left are a few thousand students who, as advertised in a New York Times op-ed, intentionally seek to… Continue reading
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Zephyr and the development of high-altitude military surveillance drones
The Guardian reported recently that the Pentagon’s Southern Command are testing stratospheric balloons over the US, to combat drug trafficking and support homeland security. The news has caused concern among US civil liberties advocates angry that American citizens will be being monitored in these tests. However, these balloons are just one of a new type… Continue reading
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Warnings ancient and modern by Victor Grossman
The wise priest Laocoön, old legends say, vainly warned against the famous “Trojan horse”. A hostile god sent giant serpents which strangled him and the big wooden present was opened. The soldiers hidden inside opened Troy’s gates so the Greek battalions could rush in, kill the men, enslave the women and destroy the city. Its… Continue reading
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Australia’s Pacific Play: Denying Climate Change and Boosting China’s Threat by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Australia has always nursed a contradictory, repressive relationship with its Pacific neighbours. Being a satrap of great powers, it has performed the role of gate keeper and monitor of regional instability, a condescending, often paternalistic agent. At stages, it has also entertained more direct colonial interests. For almost seven decades, Australia controlled Papua New Guinea,… Continue reading
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The Fight Against Monsanto’s Roundup
Activists make the case that this widely used pesticide is wreaking havoc on the earth, killing not just weeds but multiple species, including our own Continue reading
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Adding Context to ‘News’ about Venezuela
This past week’s meeting of the U.S.-and-Canada-created anti-Venezuela Lima Group of nations failed to achieve the U.S. regime’s intention of organizing a coalition of its members to participate in a U.S.-led invasion to overthrow Venezuela’s Government and install Trump’s choice, the self-styled ‘interim President’ of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, to rule there. Although 100 nations had… Continue reading
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Jeffrey Epstein News Links 13 August 2019
13 August 2019 — The New Dark Age The Epstein Mystery https://www.globalresearch.ca/epstein-mystery/5686276 Epstein’s “Suicide” and a Bridge in Brooklyn https://www.globalresearch.ca/epstein-suicide-bridge-brooklyn/5686259 Continue reading
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China News Links 12-13 August 2019
13 August 2019 • 19:40 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Trump delays some tariffs on Chinese imports https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49287494 Farmers Hit Back as USDA Chief Mocks Those Harmed by Trade War as “Whiners” http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/tGWtQlhgn9U/farmers-hit-back-as-usda-chief-mocks-those-harmed-by-trade-war-as-whiners.html Continue reading
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Assange Must Not Also Die in Jail By Craig Murray
The highly dubious death of Jeffrey Epstein in a US maximum security prison is another strong reason not to extradite Julian Assange into one – particularly as many of the same people who are relieved by Epstein’s death would like to see Assange dead too. Continue reading
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Why is the media dismissing questions about Jeffrey Epstein’s death as “conspiracy theories”?
Nearly 72 hours after billionaire money manager and accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found unconscious on the floor of his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City, more and more evidence leads to the conclusion that his death was not the simple suicide proclaimed in the newspaper headlines and cable television… Continue reading
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NATO’s China Double-Think by Finian Cunningham
The U.S.-led NATO alliance this week designated a whole new hemisphere to itself for “security” operations. No longer merely an “Atlantic” organization, it’s assuming the role of policing the Pacific. Quite a self-promotion. Continue reading
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UK government is pushing ahead with extreme US trade deal
By TruePublica: Currently, Britain has a Prime Minister who was elected not by the public, but by around 90,000 Conservative party members. With a majority in the House of Commons of just one seat, without any real political mandate, Britain is being pushed towards a hard Brexit. In little more than 80 days – it… Continue reading
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Sick to the Stomach: Pesticides and the Cocktail of Toxicity By Colin Todhunter
Dame Sally Davies is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England and recently released the CMO annual report for 2019. The report focuses on UK engagement with global health and forging partnerships. However, there appears to be no mention of cancers in the report, a serious omission according to environmental campaigner Rosemary Mason. Like many others, she… Continue reading
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U.S. military presence and popular resistance in Sri Lanka by Asoka Bandarage
The Indian Ocean is one of the most contested regions in the world today. China, the United States, India, and also Japan, Saudi Arabia and other rich and powerful states are struggling for influence over Sri Lanka, located in the geographical heart of the Indian Ocean. Sea lanes of the Indian Ocean are considered to be the… Continue reading
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Jeffrey Epstein News Links 10-12 August 2019
12 August 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Conspiracy, Death And Jeffrey Epstein https://orientalreview.org/2019/08/12/conspiracy-death-and-jeffrey-epstein/ 7 Unanswered Questions About Jeffrey Epstein’s Death That The Mainstream Media Needs To Be Talking About http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/B6bct9iwvlo/7-unanswered-questions-about-jeffrey-epsteins-death-that-the-mainstream-media-needs-to-be-talking-about.html Continue reading
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China News Links 11-12 August 2019
12 August 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Following AUSMIN talks, Australian politician compares China to Nazi Germany http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/10/hast-s10.html Could The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Contribute to Resolving the Kashmir Crisis https://www.globalresearch.ca/could-the-shanghai-cooperation-organization-sco-contribute-to-resolving-the-kashmir-crisis/5686223 Continue reading
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Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz on Pedophile Billionaire’s Sex Jet By Nick Bryant
Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the ” Lolita Express”—the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—with an actress in softcore porn movies whose name appears in Epstein’s address book under an entry for “massages,” according to flight logbooks obtained by Gawker and published today for the first time. The logs also show… Continue reading
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Epstein’s Death Must Be the Start, not the End, of the Investigation By Craig Murray
There are a number of royal palaces and grand residences of former Presidents and Prime Ministers where the inhabitants have a little bit more spring in their step following the death of Jeffrey Epstein. The media is rushing to attach the label “conspiracy theory” to any thought that his death might not have been suicide. In my… Continue reading
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A Sino-Russian firewall against US interference By M.K. Bhadrakumar
China has explicitly accused the United States and Britain for fomenting the “pro-democracy” protests in Hong Kong. Beijing has taken up the matter via the diplomatic channel demanding that the US intelligence should stop inciting and abetting the Hong Kong protestors. Last week photographic evidence appeared in the media showing the political counsellor in the… Continue reading
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